Great looking sporran--love the cantle. Count me among the skeptics as to this being from the Jacobite period. I agree that the locking mechanism looks modern. I would definetly go for that, would have bid if I had seen it, probably wouldn't have gone that high, nice piece anyway...
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
Originally Posted by BobsYourUncle
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